“II need ammunition, not a taxi. » The response fuses, crisp and clear. When the Americans offer to exfiltrate him, Volodymyr Zelensky, 44, rebuffs them, annoyed. It’s been three days since the war started and we already want to take him out of the game? No, the Ukrainian president intends to hold firm. While Kiev is under fire from the Russian army, he films himself in front of the presidential palace, sometimes surrounded by his advisers. “We are all here and we will defend ourselves”, he launches, in the early morning, with reddened eyes, on his Facebook page. From his besieged capital, he makes phone calls to Western leaders and transmits his instructions. “Have the courage to cut Russia off from the Swift network”, he said, addressing Berlin and Budapest. On February 26 around midnight, when the…
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